Aussie actor joins House of Cards

Australian actor Cody Fern has joined the final season of House of Cards as “a new series regular.”

Fern, who also appeared in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, was the 2014 winner of Australians in Film’s Heath Ledger Scholarship and like Ledger he is WA-born, being raised in the small mining town of Southern Cross.

Fern’s other credits include The Last Time I Saw Richard, The Tribes of Palos Verdes and the National Theatre’s production of War Horse.